Non-Bio Child - your thoughts?

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Apologies for the rag link but this story has cropped up a few times for me and it’s finally reached an outcome.

In a nutshell, couple in the US were wrongly implanted with an embryo that wasn’t theirs during IVF. Discovered when a black baby was born to white parents.

The biological parents are aware and have decided not to pursue a lengthy and expensive court battle for their biological child. Leaving the baby with the mother who gave birth to her. Allegedly the laws in their state highly favour the birth parent and it’s unlikely they would have won.

Honestly, thank God I’ll never find myself in this situation because I’ll have no idea what side of the fence I’ll sit on. On one hand, I couldn’t leave a child that is 100% biologically mine to someone else, but on the other, the second mother went through the entire pregnancy and birth to have her, through no fault of her own.

Awful situation for everyone.

https://mol.im/a/15911703

It would certainly make link maker more interesting!

I don't think that I could in good conscience take a child away from the woman who has carried and given birth to them but I don't know if I'd have felt that way before going through pregnancy myself. This is a sad situation for all parties.

That typo is brilliant.

@Viviennemary I agree when it comes to surrogacy etc it’s abhorrent and shouldn’t be allowed full stop. But with IVF, I’ve never given it much thought because thankfully never needed to. Is making me wonder if we are taking things too far.

All the articles had found have remained conflicting on whether the dad is actually the dad. Some sources say absolutely no genetic link to either, some say that he might be.

I thought they had finished their family and asked for the remaining embryos to be destroyed, so in my head that would make more sense around their decision, this is a child they never intended to create so why would they be financially liable for fighting yo get her and then raising . Now I know that's a v black and white (no pun intended) of looking at it, but they d have no emotional link to her either and so could look at the harm to the custodial parents of taking her harm and nit wush to inflict that on anyone.
If that wasnt actually the case imo that makes the whole thing even more awful, what a mess